No lederhosen required… German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with the country. It’s named after American Chocolatier Samuel German and his baking chocolate.

New findings suggest humans can distinguish 1 Trillion different scents, not the 10,000 number typically believed.

English author, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, coined both of the phrases, “The pen is mightier than the sword” and bad novel opening piñata “It was a dark and stormy night…”

Electoral College Fact: There’s a reason it’s called the United States rather than the United Places Where Lots of People Live

Women’s Olympic gymnastics didn’t begin until 1928 in Amsterdam — 32 years after the beginning of the modern Olympics.

At the 1924 Paris Olympics, DeHart Hubbard won the first individual men’s gold medal by an African-American. He competed in the long jump.